I am converting to SIP at a company site.  I set up the fortigate 60d identical to another one of our company sites where SIP is already implemented.

The SIP Cloud provider tells me that the firewall is not "passing confirmation packets  the phone system (PBX) sends out when it detects an incoming call",
and this is causing their system to transfer the call to our failover number.

I have opened up all requested ports (TCP/UDP etc), configurd policy,and QOS to high priority- everything they suggested, and as I mentioned earlier, it is configured exactly like our other site's fw.

I suspect it is a configuration with one of their servers.  In any case, Logging for all events is enabled in the firewall policy.  How can I tell if the firewall is blocking/not passing back the confirmation packets they SIp provider mentions?

When I call my cell phone using skype on my windows 10 computer
I see the caller id that I selected on skype.com
I am spoofing my phone number to display another phone number that I use but am not currently using because I am calling from a computer.

But when I call a big business the number that shows up is not mine and can not be called again.

How do I purchase the caller id system that a big business has.
Caller ID that does not work with a spoofed phone number.

Hi, we have a data network here with Cisco switches that we manage. Now, there is a also a VOIP vendor who his own switches in our network. (He didnt want to use ours and VLAN everything).

Both the networks are on different subnets. Now, we noticed all of a sudden PC's started getting IP's from the phone subnet...and it's wreaking havoc internally. I tried to manually trace all 200+ cables in the office to see if someone plugged a phone device into the data network, but no luck..

How else can i troubleshoot this from say a switch level?

help with setting up VLAN on a few switches for phone and data equipment.

i have a series of managed switches that are uplinked together.  I would like to set up a VLAN 100 for a dedicated router that is on port 48 of one switch. This router will listen to requests from phones that are plugged into any other random ports on the switch.  This switch is a ubiquiti unit that allows me to set port 48 to listen to vlan 100 traffic only.

The phones are set to 802.1Q with a vlan of 100.  there are other computers and servers on the switch that are on a 192.168.0.x subnet.  The server is handing out DHCP as well as the router on port 48.  The idea is to isolate the traffic for the phones to ONLY communicate with the DHCP server on port 48.  

Right now, this setting is working. However my question to you, is since the phones are all plugged into random ports 1-47 and set to vlan100  and these ports are set to listen to both default lan traffic as well as vlan100...am i simply congesting the switch with added default and vlan traffic vs setting the actual ports that the phones are plugged into to ONLY vlan 100?

Also, if i plug in another switch,, do i need to set the uplink from one switch to another switch with a vlan100 for them to comminicate or will they pass the phones traffic that is tagged 802.1Q VLAN 100 traffic to the other where the port 48 will ultimately listen and grab it? Thank you!

I rewired my house with CAT6, and have a problem terminating the jacks at the end.

I bought IDEAL CAT6 jacks, which i've never really used before.  

I spent several hours on the CAT6 jacks, and I found it to be very uncomfortable.  the inner core is a nuisance -- i know it's for the better(less attenuation?)
the wires fit into the jack very loosely and i could barely guide the 8 wires in order into the terminating jack.  Once I crimped it, it was fairly loose as well -- i could pull and without exerting so much effort pull the wire back out.

i wired it once, tested it -- it failed -- no signal whatsoever.
i didn't know what was wrong and re-wired it a seocnd time, and still uncomfortable -- and failed again.

i searched for documentation and the internet is innuntdated with info on the old system using CAT5/CAT5e, and many videos even claim to show how to terminate CAT6, but don't get into the sled and liner.

i tried once more with the sled and liner using a poor IDEAL schematic, and then gave up.

after a while, of frustration i thought why not just try the CAT5e jacks -- and in 5 minutes I did what took me 4 hours previously.  felt comfortable --slid in snug, crimped strong. and tested perfectly.

my question:

can anyone provide a detailed CAT6 patch termination document including whether or not the sled and liner are necessary, and any other specifactions ( i think the wires didn't even fit in the liner)

my second question:

is performance going…

I am looking for a Program or Script to dial remote Hayes AT Modems and log results. We have a large number of Hayes compatible modems connected to Verizon POTS lines. Many of these modems are in locations where there are frequent service interruptions. We would like to automate testing the availability and logging results. Is anyone aware of how we can do this?

Hi,
I have a Panasonic TDE phone systeme and one of my phones, a KX-DT343, cannot do External Call. It says "Restreint".  
I am in the PBX software and cannot find where a restriction could have been implemented.
In a https://panasonic.ca/pcs/operatinginstructions/kxts620-oi-fr.pdf phone manual I found that the Restrict fonction is activated ON the phone itself but on my kx-dt343s there is no option visible for this.
It can be accessible from the phone or from the PBX  I guess but where?
Tx!

Would it be a lot of data loss from SM to MM?
We have fiber from ISP [10Gb] is 9/125 SM going from SC to LC then into our LC 50/125 MM then into SM switch network module with SFP.

Would I have a lot of issues with that setup?

 I also read some people are using mode conditioning cables.  Will that help a lot?
https://community.fs.com/blog/mode-conditioning-patch-cord-utilized-in-gigabit-ethernet-applications.html

I have a BCM 200 with 4 analog lines incoming.  I would like to use the BCM to call forward these 4 lines into a new phone system that I am trialing. Could someone please point me in the right direction as I am not familiar with configuring BCM's.

Hello,

I am looking for an entreprise grade gsm modem compatible with kannel.
I need to send at  least 100 sms per minute.

I always get confused / use firewall / router rules so infrequently that I don't know  what the right way to set these things up.

Can you help?

I have a VOIP service using a Grandstream HT-502 V1.2A gadget.  The call quality isn't always good.  That device is plugged directly into one of the ports on an actiontec router (left over from when we had verizon fios, but now we have cable internet 15down / 5 up speed.

I have lots of other devices plugged into a gig network switch in the basement that might be using the internet at the same time as the calls?  That gig network switch has 1 cable going over to the actiontec also (so there's only 2 cables on the lan side of the router).

To improve call quality, that's a job for QoS, right?

The attached picture is what I did in the actiontec router.  The grandstream has the ip of 192.168.1.52

But then i thought, should this be on the Ethernet/Coax or  Broadband Connection (Ethernet/Coax) sections? Did I at least get outbound rather than inbound correct?

But that just gets the call out of the house with highest priority.  Once it's on the web, it's fighting with all kinds of data / can't prioritize it, right?

Does the VOIP provider have any bearing on the quality of the calls? Iwe are using VOIPO.com).  is there  a way to substantiate / test where the poor qiuality - dropped fractions of a second in the conversation, etc.  NO stuttering, max headroom type things.  Just a m ssing sound here and there.

And most …